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IRTS Radio News Bulletin Sunday May 2nd 2021
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IRTS Annual General Meeting

One of the features of the Irish Radio Transmitters Society Annual
General Meeting is the presentation of awards for service to the
society or the hobby. At last Sunday's AGM, Eddie Kavanagh EI3FBB was
awarded the Pat Conway EI3Z Cup for his longstanding service in reading
the weekly radio news bulletin on 80 metres. The Arup Cup went to 11
year old Ryan Morrison EI8KW, Ireland's youngest amateur for his great
achievement in getting licensed at such a young age and for being so
active on the air.. The Michael Collins Cup went to Dave EI4BZ. The
Presidents Cup was awarded to Sean Byrne EI2HZB and the Sheila Piper
Cup went to Steve Wright EI5DD. The John Ashman Shield was awarded to
the East Leinster Radio Club while the Paddy Maher EI3AV Cup was
awarded to the Shannon Basin Radio Club.
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IRTS/IARU Survey

As the member society for Ireland of the International Amateur Radio
Union, the Irish Radio Transmitters Society, along with all the other
member societies in Region 1 are conducting a review of the current
position of amateur radio in their country. This will feed into a
Region 1 conference being held in October to address the future of our
hobby. The first step is to understand what are the current strengths
and weaknesses of amateur radio and IRTS is asking you to express your
opinion by filling out a brief survey, available on the IRTS website
You do not need to be a member to participate. The survey is anonymous
and only takes a few minutes. The responses will help shape the future
of our hobby in Ireland and abroad and your input is greatly
appreciated.
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EIØHQ in the 2021 IARU HF Championship

The IARU HF Championship is a 24-hour worldwide contest under the
auspices of the International Amateur Radio Union, held on the second
full weekend of July every year. The ARRL manages this contest on
behalf of IARU. Multipliers include ITU Zones and IARU member society
HQ stations, so the HQ stations are very much in demand. The 2021
contest will be on 10/11 July, from 1200 UTC Saturday to 1159 UTC
Sunday. It is a CW & Phone contest, on the six contest bands from 160m
to 10m. The IRTS HQ station call sign is EIØHQ and has generally been
allocated by agreement to an IRTS affiliated club or contest/DX group.
With the likelihood of social distancing restrictions still being in
place in July, we are inviting individual IRTS members to operate one
or more bands from an in place station (i.e. not a remote station) for
the full 24 hours, using the call sign EIØHQ. Operators in this contest
must be in a position to forward a Cabrillo-formatted log to the
contest manager immediately after the contest, as logs from all HQ
Station ops will need to be merged prior to uploading to ARRL within
the 5-day load upload deadline. IRTS licensed members based in EI are
invited to apply to operate one or more band/modes of the IRTS HQ
station for the 2021 contest. Please specify the band and mode you wish
to operate. Send your expressions of interest to Contest Manager Joe
Ryan EI7GY at IRTS.contests /at/ gmail.com
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South Eastern Amateur Radio Group

Members of the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group EI2WRC were QRV as
EI2IMD on Saturday April 24th for International Marconi Day 2021. The
station was to be active solely from Tramore, Co. Waterford, but due to
the current travel situation, the organisers the Cornish Radio Amateur
Club had allowed the EI2WRC members to run the special call from their
own homes. Even though band conditions were poor and QSO's were hard to
complete, a large amount were logged mainly on 20, 40 and 80m. John
EI3HQB manged to work a few stations on CW also. EI2WRC members who
worked various slots throughout the day were Sue EI1826, John EI3HQB,
Wayne EI7HKB, Sam EI3IUB, Alan EI3HDB and Seany EI2HZB. EI2WRC would
like to thank the Cornish Radio Amateur Club for organising the
International Marconi Day every year. The club is already looking
forward to taking part in the 2022 event! For anyone that wishes to
find out more about the South Eastern Amateur Radio Group and their
activities you can drop them an email to southeasternarg /at/ gmail.com
or please feel free to go along to any their meetings. You can check
their website www.searg.ie and you can also join them on Facebook and
follow them on Twitter.
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Incoming QSL Bureau

With the easing of the travel restrictions due to Covid-19, a visit to
PO Box 462 by Dave EI6AL resulted in a pick up of 36kg of incoming
cards. This were sorted by Incoming Manager Pat EI2HX and have been
distributed to the sub-managers for distribution to members. Members
are reminded to keep their callsign details up to date with their
sub-manager and members who change their callsigns are reminded that
they may be dealing with two sub-managers for quite a while due to the
normal delays in the worldwide bureau system. Special event call
holders are especially asked to notify Pat EI2HX of the QSL route for
their incoming cards. See the latest Echo Ireland or the IRTS web site
for details of your QSL sub-manager.
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WRTC 2022 Postponed to 2023

The World Radio Team Championships are normally held every four years
and are run in conjunction with the IARU HF Championships on the second
weekend in July. WTRC 2022 was due to be held in Italy but at the WRTC
2022 Association Assembly held on April 23rd, a decision was made to
postpone the event for one year until 2023 due to the situation with
the Covid-19 pandemic. The event will be held in the Emilia-Romagna
region of northern Italy where 50 two-man teams representing most areas
of the world compete from identical stations in the 24-hour IARU
contest. Competitors are selected based on specified contest results
over two years. Congratulations to Mark EI6JK who finished in 6th place
in our region EU 02 while other high paced finishers were Neil EI3JE,
Mark EI3KD, Dan EI3JZ and John EI7IG.
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UKEICC 80m CW Contest on Wednesday last April 28th - Results

The final UKEICC monthly 80 metres CW contest was held on Wednesday
last the April 28th. From a total entry of 114 stations the overall
winner was Algirdas LY4ZZ in the Low Power section. Leading High Power
entrant was Arvydas LY2F and Sergei YL3FW was overall winner of the QRP
section operating unassisted. Leading the HP unassisted section was
Chris GM2V, with Goran SF6W the leading unassisted low power entrant.
The bonus calls worth the maximum of 10 points were EI5G operated by
Paul EI5DI and GW4J operated by Stewart GW0ETF. There were nine EI
station active on the night, a 50% improvement on the March contest.
The monthly 80 metre contests will resume in September.
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On the Air next week

On Sunday next, 9th May, there is a one-hour IRTS 40 metres Counties
Contest, starting at 1200z, see www.irts.ie/contests for full details.
The 55th annual Italian VOLTA WW RTTY Contest runs next weekend from
1200z on Saturday to 1200z on Sunday. The exchange is signal report,
serial number and CQ Zone. The 63rd annual Russian CQ-M International
DX Contest also runs from 1200z on Saturday for 24 hours on CW and SSB
and the exchange is report and serial number. The Worked All Britain 7
MHz SSB and CW contest will run from 1000z to 1400z on Sunday next May
the 9th.

DX News Lee, HL1IWD and Kim KH6IYL will be active on 40 and 20 metres
as HL1IWD/4 from Kogunsan Island, Asia-148, between May 1st and the
3rd. They will use CW and FT8. QSL via EA5GL. Lee will make a one day
visit to activate Anmyon Island Asia-080 on May 3rd. Harry, JG7PSJ will
once again be active as JD1BMH from Chichijima Island, Asia-031 between
April 30th and May 7th. Activity will be on 40-10 metres using CW, SSB
and RTTY. QSL via the Bureau to JD1BMH or direct to JG7PSJ. Tom, LA6VDA
will be QRV as JW6VDA from Spitsbergen Island, IOTA Europe-026, until
to May 9. Activity is on the HF bands using SSB. QSL via LoTW.
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That is the news for this week. Items for inclusion in next week's
radio news can be submitted by email to newsteam/at/irts/dot/ie for
automatic forwarding to both the radio and printed news services. The
deadline is midnight on Thursday. Urgent items for the news may be
telephoned to News Editor Dave EI4BZ on 087-6290574.

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